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Morgan Geekie scored 33 goals this past season in a breakout campaign for Boston.
Morgan Geekie is sticking around in Boston.
The Bruins announced Sunday night that they have signed Geekie to a six-year contract extension worth $33 million, equating out to a $5.5 annual cap hit.
Geekie, who was set to be a restricted free agent after orchestrating a breakout season in a top-line role with Boston, will not hit free agency again until 2031.
This new deal stands as a sizable pay bump from the two-year, $4 million contract that he initially inked with Boston in July 2023. But after toiling with both the Carolina Hurricanes and Seattle Kraken in more of a fourth-line role, Geekie thrived in elevated minutes with Boston.
The 26-year-old Geekie was one of the few bright spots on the 2024-25 Bruins, scoring a career-high 33 goals and 57 points in 77 games and primarily skating alongside David Pastrnak and Elias Lindholm to close out the year.
After struggling to find his footing at the start of the year under Jim Montgomery (1 goal, 3 assists in 18 games), Geekie was one of the more productive scorers in the league down the stretch.
Over his final 59 games, Geekie scored 32 goals and posted 53 points, developing into an effective triggerman alongside Pastrnak on Boston’s top line. Of his 33 goals this past season, 26 came during 5-on-5 play.
Speaking after the Bruins’ season wrapped, Geekie expressed a desire to stay with Boston for the foreseeable future.
“I’ll let my agent figure that out. I haven’t really put much thought into that,” Geekie said. “I know there’s a lot of like going into the deadline. What was gonna happen with me? I’m just happy to stick around for another month and a half and if that’s as long as I’m here, then that’s how it’s gonna be, but I love it here. I’d love to stay as long as I can. But it’s a long summer, it’s a business at the end of the day.”
Locking Geekie into a long-term deal stood as one of Don Sweeney’s top priorities going into a busy offseason.
Not only was Geekie one of the few reliable conduits of offense for Boston this past year, but signing him before the start of unrestricted free agency also gives Boston a proper gauge on how much cap flexibility they will have on the open market — a scenario that didn’t manifest itself last year when Boston’s contract strife with another RFA in Jeremy Swayman dragged all the way into October 2024.
Speaking on Wednesday, Sweeney said that the Bruins were looking to bridge the gap with Geekie on a new deal — but it appeared as though there was still plenty of work to be done.
“There’s been constant communication. Are we on the doorstep? I don’t think so,” Sweeney said. “But that can change within one phone call. Again, you get in around this time frame, and sometimes you’re tracking on a deal, and you get it done right away, and other times you get sort of pushed to the back burner as to do what everybody else is maybe focused on.
“Doesn’t mean that my attention isn’t on Morgan and being able to close out a deal. We have time in that, in that regard, so I’m not concerned about it.”
Given that the NHL salary cap is expected to steadily increase each of the next few years, Geekie’s contract could either evolve into a market-value deal — or an outright steal.
If Geekie regresses into more of a 15-20-goal, middle-six player moving forward, that $5.5 million annual price tag should eventually become the going rate for players of that profile in the next year or two.
But if the Manitoba product proves that this past year wasn’t a fluke and becomes a 30-goal regular, that $5.5 million annual cap hit would quickly look like a bargain value for a Bruins team that is also primed to have an influx of younger, cost-controlled prospects carve out roles over the next few seasons.
With Geekie reportedly signed, the Bruins have a projected $16.6 million in cap space entering the start of free agency, per PuckPedia.
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